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Member opportunity: Ball Colegrave Sponsored Travel Scholarship – £1,500

Keen to travel to broaden your commercial bedding plant knowledge and experience? This scholarship might be for you… What is the award? Up to £1,500 to fund travel across the UK and Europe in order to develop knowledge and experience… Read more »

Member opportunity: Stalls at National Welsh Music Day at Wrexham Glyndwr University

Another great opportunity for members to showcase their products in the Wrexham area… Wrexham Glyndwr University is planning a community event to celebrate National Welsh Music Day on February 7th, including musical performances and poetry readings, Welsh themed food and… Read more »

Case study: Erddig Grow – National Trust, Erddig, Wrexham

Before joining Horticulture Wales as our Communications Officer Emma Cornes worked for the National Trust at Erddig on the Green Academies Project as Community Ranger and went on to start Erddig Grow with colleagues. Recently she went back to find… Read more »

Horticulture Week Business Awards are open for entries

We’ve spotted a great opportunity for our members. The Horticulture Week Business Awards are open for entries. The Awards aim to reward and recognise the most focused, driven and ambitious businesses across horticulture and its related industries. The entries will… Read more »

Horticulture Wales 2019 Review

2019 was a busy year for Horticulture Wales. As we look forward into 2020, we thought now is a good time to review what we’ve achieved over the past 12 months. Here’s out 2019 review: We can’t wait to work… Read more »

Horticulture Wales Stakeholder Meeting

On 11th December the Horticulture Wales team all went to our Stakeholder Meeting at Cultivate, Newtown. Cultivate is a social enterprise linking food and community. Cultivate aims address many of the issues associated with the modern food system, and working towards… Read more »

Erlas Victorian Walled Garden at Tŷ Pawb with Horticulture Wales

Together with Wrexham Glyndwr University Enhancing Entrepreneurship Team, we’re trialling a new venture with Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham’s community hub. They’ve kindly made some ‘barrows’ available to our project members. Find out more here. Erlas Walled Garden at Tŷ Pawb Yesterday… Read more »

Horticulture Wales in the News – December 2019

This month we’ve had the following press coverage: Horticulture Wales paints a festive picture with businesses in Flintshire and Wrexham More Christmas treats from Ty pawb Horticulture Wales project backing for small businesses who ‘support local’ this Christmas

Press release: Horticulture Wales paints a Festive Picture with Local Businesses

Wrexham Glyndŵr University’s Horticulture Wales project is backing small businesses who ‘support local’ this Christmas with a collection of festive window displays. The decorative windows will highlight shops which support communities and promote their local growers and producers. A variety… Read more »

Grower Pack: The Vale of Clwyd Denbigh Plum

Horticulture Wales, in conjunction with ADAS, produced a grower pack, available for all growers and producers, to give guidelines on all aspects of compliance in respect of Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status. This pack is available as a download… Read more »